"Cheer up!" twelve-year-old Mary-Kate Burke told her friend, Summer Sorenson, as she sat next to her on the bus. "Christmas break is only two weeks away!" "Easy for you to say," Summer replied glumly. "You didn't flunk Meany Meenan's test on Friday." "At least I hope I didn't," Mary-Kate said. "That test was tough." "I'll bet I totally flunked it," Rebecca Duncan chimed in. Can you believe he asked that question about the price of lard?"
"That was gross," Elise Van Hook called from the back of the bus. "There was way too much math on the test," Rebecca added. "I know," Summer said. "And the...
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